Maine USA-1971: It Was In A Place Just Like This Where He Approached And Them

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMaine, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Maine

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It Was In A Place Just Like This Where He Approached And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a hauntingly still lakeside scene in Maine. Bare trees stand silhouetted against a deep blue water surface, their reflections creating a symmetrical, almost surreal composition. A wooden A-frame structure is visible in the water, adding to the eerie stillness. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a strong blue tint and dark vignette framing, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and nostalgia. The camera remains steady, focusing on the natural landscape and its distorted mirror image.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123062730

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
Date: 1971 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Maine, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Maine home-movie requests needing a quiet lakeside landscape, reflective water, or atmospheric rural cutaway for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The frames may show a rural Maine lakeside in 1971, with bare trees, open water, grassy banks, and a small wooden A-frame form as the only visible period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a home-movie camera lingering on a still waterside view rather than recording a planned action or performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, reflected leafless trees, grassy shoreline, dark film edges, a small wooden A-frame structure, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image carries saturated blue color shift, visible grain, soft focus, dark vignetted edges, and slight exposure variation across the brief shot.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a reflective insert, memory beat, eerie transition, or quiet rural cutaway between more event-driven archive scenes.
Historical context: The scene provides environmental context for a 1970s home-movie view of rural Maine, emphasizing water, winter or early spring trees, and open land without visible people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches this clip may match include 1971 Maine 8mm lake, vintage home movie reflective water, bare trees by lake, blue tinted Super 8 landscape, and rural waterside cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 home-movie landscapes, then reflective water, rural isolation, or atmospheric nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame of still blue water reflecting bare trees and shoreline, with a small wooden A-frame shape near the right side. — Still water reflects leafless trees along a rural Maine shoreline.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with bare shoreline trees mirrored in blue water and a small wooden A-frame shape near the right edge. — Bare trees and a small wooden structure are mirrored in the blue water.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a softly exposed lakeside reflection, with bare trees, blue water, and a small wooden form. — Soft exposure and blue tint give the reflected shoreline a quiet archival texture.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of bare trees beside a blue lake or pond, with grass in the foreground and soft vintage color shift. — The final frame settles on bare waterside trees and green foreground grass.

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